Christa Case Bryant

Heartland correspondent

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Christa Case Bryant is The Christian Science Monitor's Heartland correspondent, covering political issues from Appalachia to the Great Plains.

A 2015-16 Nieman fellow at Harvard, she previously served as Politics editor, Jerusalem bureau chief, Middle East editor, and Europe editor for the Monitor. She has reported from Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Germany.

Ms. Bryant is a graduate of Principia College, where she focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through her major in global perspectives and minor in religion. She also attended the Middlebury School of Hebrew, and studied spoken Arabic in Jerusalem.

After spending many years as a cross-country ski racer on the national and international level, Ms. Bryant has a special interest in all things Olympian. She covered the Winter Olympics in 2010 and 2018.